End of work stoppages with no waiting days and isolation of positive cases: what changes on February 1, 2023

End of sick leave Covid without day of deficiency

Employees who are positive to Covid-19 and who cannot telework will no longer be able to benefit from sick leave with compensation without checking the conditions for entitlement, without waiting period and without being counted in the maximum periods of payment from 1^er February 2023.

Indeed, the derogatory system for the care of sick leave related to COVID-19 by the Health Insurance ends. From 1^er in february 2023, you will no longer be able to request a derogatory work stoppage on the declare.ameli.fr online service.

The Health Insurance program is ending the “Contact Covid” service, which enabled the identification and care of people with Covid-19 and their contact cases. If your screening test is positive (RT-PCR or antigen test), you will no longer receive SMS or email from the Health Insurance. The ‘contact tracing’ of the Health Insurance to trace contacts in close contacts of Covid-19 positive persons is also abolished from 1^er February 2023.

If you are infected with the COVID-19 virus and your health does not allow you to work, including working from home, you must make an appointment with your doctor who may prescribe a work stoppage.

Like any work stoppage, you have 48 hours to send the medical certificate to your health insurance fund and, if you are an employee, to your employer.

For more information on work stoppages, you can consult the Service-Public.fa: " Accident at work Sickness or private sector and " Accident at work Sickness or and the articles of the Health Insurance " Work stoppage due to sickness of the employee and " Work stoppage due to sickness of self-employed persons ”.

End of routine isolation of positive cases and testing of contact cases

In line with the recommendations of the High Council on Public Health (HCSP), from 1^er February 2023, people who tested positive for COVID-19 are no longer required to self-isolate.

People without symptoms who have been in contact with people who have tested positive for Covid should no longer be required to test 2 days after being notified.

However, COVID-19 positive individuals and those who have been in contact with a contagious person are still strongly advised to:

• respect barrier gestures (wearing a mask, physical distancing, hand hygiene...);
• do a screening test;
• avoid contact with the frail.

Evolution of the SI-DEP tool

From 1^er February 2023, people who perform a test at a laboratory, pharmacy or testing center will be required to provide prior consent for the test results to be recorded in the SI-DEP tool. You will be able to accept or refuse the sharing of your test data. The SI-DEP tool will remain in operation until 30 June 2023.